Wow. What do you do when the horses are already outta the gate? What do you do with the CO2 is already into the atmosphere? This is the idea of capturing that 400 parts per million of CO2 out of the atmosphere after it’s already, well, up in the error — oops… I mean — up in the air. Here are the winners of the XGames competition on CO2. This $20M competition is to figure…
Obama’s Climate Policy Is a Hot Mess – WSJ: Bjorn Lomborg may have been best know for his massive tomb of a book entitled The Skeptical Environmentalist. Lomborg (2007) in The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World “may be the best source for reviewing the facts about quality of life, global warming, and the optimal approaches for addressing the issues.” (Hall, Taylor, Zapalski, & Hall, 2009, p. 5) Apparently he has since gone off to consult…
Climate Leadership | Climate Leadership Plan | Alberta.ca: WOW. On the eve of the humongous climate meetings in Paris next week (week after Thanksgiving in USA), Canada has stepped up to the plate on addressing climate changes. Alberta is the home of Coal and Oil Sands: two of the great game changers in addressing pollution in general and Greenhouse Gas emissions (GHG). There are several reports, but one is to simply charge a tax per…
Is 2015 The Year Soil Becomes Climate Change’s Hottest Topic? | ThinkProgress: Global Soil Week was last week. It slipped by without even a stain on the knees for most of us. Give a look at this recount of the week’s activities and the progress to address the issues we are generating for out soil, our top soil and the planet in general. This is really ugly. One estimate is that we could deplete all…
Climate-change deniers are in retreat – The Washington Post: It will be nice to move past the non-debate about is there global warming, and move off into the real debate. We are all living unsustainable lives with non-sustainable business models. What is our plan to move toward sustainability. Singly and collectively? The argument that it doesn’t do any good for us to do something if China and India continue consuming is sad and ironic. For…
NASA, NOAA Find 2014 Warmest Year in Modern Record | NASA This is a good recap of the tie in to record warming with human activity. It also give links the the raw data and the detailed methodology. Anybody want to play with the raw, unadulterated data, you will find a LOT of it; and no matter which way you look at it trend line appears. And the trend line is very depressing. BUT… This…
